Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:29:28 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ... |
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > The thing is, I'm personally very suspicious of the "features for that > > exclusive 0.1%" mentality. > > Then why do we have sendfile(), or that idiotic sys_readahead() ? > > Sending files over sockets are %99 of what most network servers are > actually doing today, it is much more than 0.1% :-)
The same could be said for AIO, there are a _lot_ of server programs which are heavily overthreaded because of a lack of AIO...
cheers,
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